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May 8, 2006 :: Volume 2, Issue 4
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Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content

Posted by TimSlavin at May 15, 2005

"Folksonomies, a new user-driven approach to organizing information, may help alleviate some of the challenges of taxonomies. Sites with folksonomies include two basic capabilities: they let users add “tags” to information and they create navigational links out of those tags to help users find and organize that information later."

While folksonomies are mentioned in an adapativepath essay in the Big Story (left), this article from UIE offers an excellent overview.

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